Men and Women IN THE SERVICE
Veterans and service members from the area are named with commendations, separations, and postings. Bud Young received a Navy letter of commendation for meritorious duty aboard a destroyer off Okinawa on May 11, 1945, while others including Lt. Jack Holman and Pvt. Elza Powell are noted for overseas service, discharges, and transfers across the European and Pacific theaters.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wilbur Claude
Bud” Young, Jr
R. A. Spruance
U. S. Navy
Okinawa
Young
Bonnie Fore
Marion
First Avenue
W. C. Young
Iowa Electric Light and Power Company
Tender Young
Jack S. Holman
Howard R. Holman
D Avenue
Pacific
Dio
Third Fleet
Japan
Thirtieth Street
Elza J. Powell
J. L. Powell
Walker
Naples
Italy
Army Service Forces
Anthony RR. Fontana
Hinkley Avenue
Great Salkies
Ill
Navy
Arnold C. Piersall
E. S. Piersall
Fifteenth Street
States
Signal Service
Army
Piersall
LaPlant-Choate Manufacturing Company
U.S. Delivers Cautious Grain Hope to Poland
President Truman told Poland's Boleslaw Bierut that no grain-importing country can expect more than a portion of its needs in the immediate future. The remark addressed a message from Poland's provisional government leader.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Poland
Truman
UNRRA
Combined Food Boards
Washington
Boleslaw Bierut
National Council
Bierut
Tuesday Theater Schedules At Local Chains
Paramount offers Road to Utopia with multiple daily showtimes plus short subjects. Iowa shows The Bandit of Sherwood Forest and Just Before Dawn at various times. Abilene Town and Meet Me on Broadway run with several daily slots. Palace lists Over 21 and Hollywood and Vine. Rialto runs Patrick the Great and Border Bandits. Times features Pillow to Post and Captain Eddie. Strand presents The Thin Man Goes Home and Leave It to the Irish. Marion books Too Young to Know and Fallen Angel with varied times.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gazette
Paramount
Broadway
Palace
Hollywood and
Vine
Rialto
Patrick
Border Bandits
Eddie
Strand
Marion
Iowa Electric Light seeks Linn County power franchise
The Iowa State Commerce Commission lists a petition by Iowa Electric Light and Power Company Cedar Rapids to erect operate and maintain an electric transmission line across Linn County public lands highways streams and private lands The hearing is set for April 9 1946 at 10 am in Des Moines with Docket E-7329 Objections must be filed in triplicate at least five days before the hearing and may be presented by an authorized representative in Des Moines Iowa March 5 1946 by the commission secretary Geo L McCaughan
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Iowa State Commerce Commission
Linn County
Iowa Electric Light and Power Company
Cedar Rapids
Iowa
Town State Commerce Commission
Towa
Des Moines
Carl W. Reed
B. M. Richardson
David B. Long
Geo. L. McCaughan
Reed
Also Mentioned on This Page
Bing Crosby
Dorothy Lamour
Bob Hope
Utopia
Morocco
Singapore
Zanzibar
Arctic
Dottie
Abilene Town
Jack Lambert
Randolph Scott
Marjorie Reynolds
Jinx Falkenburg
Fred Brady
Luzon
Corregidor
Manila
Howard
Fort Leavenworth
Kaw
Keith Irwin
Tenth Street NW
Robert E. Funk
Earl Funk
E Avenue NE
Camp Grant, Ill
76Th Division
Patton
Third Army
Richard R. Layman
E. B. Layman
Twenty-fifth Street Drive
Kan
Ordnance
Roy M. Toft
Minneapolis
RKO
Love Stony
Donald Mook
Nelon Broderick
Boston Blackie
WANT
Ent
Dr. D. Jayne & Son
Jayne
U.S
Reynolds
Brady - Falkerburg
Ryingson
Allen Earns
Gene Lockhart
Junior
Ietaal Pines
Jasper and the Beanstalk
Irene Charles É
Pun
Knox
William Powell
Myrna Loy
Thin Man Goes
Lucile Watson
Gloria DeHaven
Ann Revere
James Dunn
Wanda McKay
Jack LaRue
One
Fred Macmurray Lynn Bari
Captain Eddie
Rlus
Ida, Lupino
William Prince
Sydney Greenstreet
Pillow
Gloria Jean Kirby Grant
Nancy Kelly
William Gargan i “Song of the Sarong
Joan Leslie
Robin Hutton
Alice Faye
Dana Andrews
Hitler
ST. Mary's
Dr. Caldwell
Big Brothers
Penny
Penney's Shoe Dept
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